Everybody knew response to Pahalgam terror attack was inevitable, we carried out precautionary deployments: DGMO Lt Gen Ghai on Op Sindoor

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Director General Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai has said that the Indian Defence Forces carried out certain precautionary deployments on borders ahead of Operation Sindoor to make sure that the enemy was deterred and that everybody knew that a response to the Pahalgam terror attack was inevitable.

Lt Gen Ghai, who was speaking on Operation Sindoor at the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries’ (UNTCC) Chiefs’ Conclave, said the final selection of targets was carried out from a large number of targets that we scrutinised.

“On April 22, terror came calling (in Pahalgam). Sponsored terrorists from across the LoC killed 26 innocent tourists, singled them out, identified them, asked for the community that they came from and shot them in cold blood in front of their f